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What Specialties Do Medical Transcription Companies Handle?

Written by Bob Kruse

Topic: Business OpportunitiesPublished June 17, 2012
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Due to the increase in demand for transcribing patient health records, the number of medical transcription companies offering quality medical transcription services has also increased. A professional medical transcription company can provide superior quality, customized medical transcription outsourcing services to individual physicians, dentists, group practices, clinicians, multi-specialty groups, acute care facilities, long term care facilities, medical office administrators and other health care entities who are looking to outsource their medical transcription process.

A recognized medical transcription companywill have experts to transcribe a wide range of medical records including operative reports, history and physical examination reports, radiology reports, consultation reports, office visits, physician letters, discharge summaries, death summaries, progress notes, clinical notes, emergency notes and psychiatry reports. To facilitate efficient transcription, these companies are equipped with state-of-the-art tools and techniques including dictation equipment and high-end computers with uninterrupted fast Internet.

Works with Every Specialty

Medical transcription companies offer a full array of professional transcription solutions for almost every medical specialty including allergy and sleep medicine, anesthesiology, behavioral medicine, critical care, dentistry, dermatology, emergency room, endocrinology, family practice, gastroenterology, geriatrics, hematology, immunology, infectious diseases, nephrology, neurology, neurosurgery, nuclear medicine, nursing, obstetrics & gynecology, occupational medicine, oncology, ophthalmology, oral & maxillofacial surgery, pain management, pathology, pediatrics, physical medicine and other branches.

Depending on the medical specialty for which transcription is required, a transcription group is assigned. The transcription group comprises a pool of talented professionals including English language specialists, medical transcriptionists, proofreaders, editors and quality control experts who are up-to-date on their knowledge of medical laboratory terms, surgical terms and abbreviations necessary for transcription. These professionals pay careful attention to speech patterns, accents and dialects to provide accurate transcripts.

Medical Transcription Services Highlights

  • Automated electronic report distribution
  • Web-enabled document flow management system
  • Electronic medical record solution
  • Web-based file transfer
  • Flexible dictation options - digital dictation machine and toll free number
  • Customizing and maintaining EMR
  • Secured file transfer - FTP (File Transfer Protocol) or browser based transfer
  • Retrieval of completed records via VPN
  • Competitive pricing with savings up to 30 to 40% lower than the market rates
  • Secure uploading of voice files and retrieval of reports
  • 128-Bit SSL file encryption, integrates with EMR systems
  • 24x7 technical support

Hiring a Medical Transcription Company

When looking for medical transcription companies, you must consider the following things - years of experience the company has in the field; medical specialties the company handles; pricing; security, privacy, and continuity terms; level of data accuracy; terms, conditions and termination rules; and training costs.

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MTS Transcription Services (MTS) is one of the leading medical transcription companies in the US, providing reliable medical transcription services to clients across the country.